In Accenture Consulting, we focus on helping clients achieve profitable growth and solve their most pressing challenges; we do this by operating at the intersection of strategy, technology, digital and operations, providing a connected Consulting experience.

Financial Institutions continue to face numerous challenges.

In Accenture’s Commercial Banking Practice, one of the biggest challenges we see relates to how our clients grow their SME customer base profitably. Commercial lending remains under continued pressure from internal operational challenges as well as a number of disruptive market and regulatory forces. SME Banking is currently in rapid transition, driven by changing customer expectations, technology-enabled new entrants, economic uncertainty and low margins. Accenture is responding to this by recruiting leaders who bring together the best of new, cutting-edge technology; combined with relevant industry experience and insight to help our clients turn these challenges into opportunities.

What responsibilities will you have?

Every day at Accenture is different and that’s what makes it such an exciting place to work. Helping our clients means being close to them, getting to know them and how they work, and the challenges they face. Most Managers spend the majority of their time working on client sites leading projects of change and delivery with our banking clients. There is an expectation of personal development responsibilities as well as practice building. Projects vary in size and duration but you will need to run a project as well as the team around you, stakeholders and senior client leadership. Managers in Commercial Banking will be responsible for:

Applying banking industry and technology expertise to advise, change, transform and deliver outcomes that enable our clients to become high performing businesses

Actively contributing to our community and clients as practitioners, who can think logically, tackle problems and engage others

Management of streams of work – with a particular focus on shaping solutions and coordinating work across multiple streams, ensuring a sensible, workable outcome

Alignment of change delivery across both business and IT teams to ensure successful designs, solutions or implementations

Advising on how agile methods of working benefit clients in their transformational journey and the speed with which they deliver change

Managing medium-sized teams (of 6 – 20 people) whilst mentoring and encouraging professional growth of members of the team

Creation of deliverables and tangible outputs, including roadmaps and plans, approach and framework documents, and reports

What skills & experience are we looking for?

It’s an exciting time to be working Commercial banking just now, with the industry going through a rapid transformation with new entrants providing the traditional players with threats but also opportunities to transform the way they do business. It’s important that our Managers understand the domain that they are operating in so that they can use industry trends as well as their own ideas to provide innovative solutions to client problems.

Each new project brings a fresh set of challenges, so we need dynamic people to join the team and challenge existing norms offering their own perspectives to create more innovative solutions for our clients. We require Managers who can excel in a combination of the listed areas:

A strong understanding of the market, products and processes behind Commercial Credit, ideally with experience of lending in the cloud/ alternative lending. This is an area we are looking to expand as part of our SME practice.

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business insight, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

On top of this, we have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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